Improvement in bag-holders



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JOHN M. BUnKnon DAnsvILLn,` NEW-YORK;

Lette/rs Patent N0.- 9S,553, dated January 4, 1870.

IMPROVEMENT IN IBAG-HOLDEIBS.i

- The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part ofthe same.

To all whom 'it may oon-cern Be it known that I, J OHN M. BURKE, ofDansville,

in the county of Livingston, and State of New York,4

have invented a new and valuable Improvement in Bag-Holders; and I dohereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exactdescription of the' construction and operation of' the same, referencebeing had to the annexed drawings, making a part of this specification,and to the letters and 4iigures of reference marked thereon. y

Figure 1, of the drawing, isa representation ofthe clamping-device of mybag-holder in perspective.

Figure 2 is a vertical central section ot' my invention, showing bag inplace.

Myinveut-ion relates to a means for holding sacks or bags whilst beingiilled, and consists, mainly, in the construction and novel arrangementofdevices whereby this object is satisfactorily accomplished.

` The letter A, of the drawings, represents a'truck, with wheels a. y

Hooks b b' are fastened luto the frame of the truck, on which lodges thebar4 c' of the bag-holder.

The bagfholder C consists oi three bars, o, o', and o", connected at'theeuds'by the cheeks B B, to which are pivoted the clamps (l d.

M y invention is thus operated:

lThe mouth of the-sack, which is to bevlledfis en;

veloped about the bars o and o, and cheeks B B. The bag-holder is thenallowed to drop. Being held by the hooks bb', it`will, by means of thebar c edge or hem will be secured by bringing down on it the clamps d d,which press it tightly against the bar o. It is now firmly held, withmonth open, ready for tillin means of its handles F F,'the truck A isrolled forward to the filling-spout, the sack or bag filled, and easilyand quickly removed on its truck.

By the use of several such trucks, one may be always ready, with itsopen sack, to supply the place of that removed, so that 11o time need belost.

The bag is easily removed from the holder, by raising the clamps d ll.It falls endwise on the platform A', of the truck, is quickly sewn upand removed.

What I claimas my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

The bars c, c', and c", clamps d, cheeks B, and hooks b', in combinationwit-h the truck A, constructed and arranged to operate substantially asand for the purposes specified.

' 1n testi'mony that Iclaim the above, I have hereunto subscribed myname, `in the presence oi' two wit\ nesses. i v

JOHN M. BURKE.

Witnesses:

C.. R. KERN, GEO. B. THOMAS.

, clamp the inner edge or hem of' the bag, and the outer

